Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 19460

Blood Cancer: Health Services

Tabled: 11 December 2024

Answered: 16 December 2024

Named Day

Question

Dr Simon Opher

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet the Blood Cancer Alliance to discuss the need to include specific measures to improve blood cancer (a) diagnosis, (b) treatment and (c) care in the forthcoming cancer strategy.

Answer

There are no current plans to introduce a specific proxy staging measure or a corresponding national target to support the earlier diagnosis of blood cancers. To tackle late diagnoses of blood cancers, the National Health Service is implementing non-speci...

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